Into the Collection: New England Artists

Into the Collection offers visitors an opportunity to view and learn more about objects from the McMullen Museum’s permanent collection rarely on display. Assistant Director Diana Larsen aided by the Museum’s Student Ambassadors will offer a virtual presentation of pain......More

Into the Collection offers visitors an opportunity to view and learn more about objects from the McMullen Museum’s permanent collection rarely on display. Assistant Director Diana Larsen aided by the Museum’s Student Ambassadors will offer a virtual presentation of paintings by New England artists. Visitors are invited to learn from the presenters ask questions and share their knowledge and observations. Register at https://tinyurl.com/y98dwtl8.

IDK [What This Is]

A new play by Maggie Kearnan '14. Six friends agree to participate in a social engineering experiment in the hope of making a difference in the world. Things do not go according to plan.

Walk + Talk through "Taking Shape" w/ Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi, Founder of the Barjeel Art Foundation

Open to the public register at https://tin......More

Open to the public register at https://tinyurl.com/ychaqnxw To celebrate the virtual opening of "Taking Shape: Abstraction from the Arab World 1950s–1980s " the McMullen Museum invites guests to join Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi Founder of the Barjeel Art Foundation and Visiting Lecturer at Boston College for a virtual tour and Q+A session on the exhibition. Al Qassemi will introduce major themes in "Taking Shape" and will offer background and anecdotes on how the collection and the exhibition came together. Visitors are welcome to ask questions along the way.

Lecture by Alex Seggerman: “Islam & Surrealism: Abdel Hadi el-Gazzar’s Postwar Painting in Egypt”

The McMullen Museum welcomes Rutgers University Professor Alex Dika Seggerman for a virtual presentation that delves into her recent publication "Modernism on the Nile: Art in Egypt between the Islamic and the Contemporary (2019)." In the years after World War II the Eg......More

The McMullen Museum welcomes Rutgers University Professor Alex Dika Seggerman for a virtual presentation that delves into her recent publication "Modernism on the Nile: Art in Egypt between the Islamic and the Contemporary (2019)." In the years after World War II the Egyptian artist Abdel Hadi el-Gazzar (1925–66) developed a style of oil painting that incorporated Islamic mysticism with surrealist principles. With this practice Gazzar aimed to make art more accessible to the Egyptian people while also participating in transnational post-surrealist art movements. Drawing from "Modernism on the Nile " Seggerman argues that Gazzar’s local and transnational connections are evidence of “constellational modernism ” a framework for understanding modern art in Egypt that challenges Euro-centric narratives of modernism and expands Islamic art history into the modern era. Register for this lecture withAlex Dika Seggerman at https://tinyurl.com/yynw3jg6. Alex Dika Seggerman is Assistant Professor of Art History at Rutgers University-Newark. She is author of "Modernism on the Nile: Art in Egypt between the Islamic and the Contemporary" (University of North Carolina Press 2019) and co-editor of the forthcoming "Making Modernity in the Islamic Mediterranean" (Indiana University Press 2021).